tkinter: creating/attaching menubar to top level window
Richard Damon
Richard at Damon-Family.org
Fri Jan 8 17:16:20 EST 2021
On 1/8/21 4:47 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm using Chapter 9 in Mark Roseman's "Modern Tkinter for Busy Python
> Developers" to learn how to write a top level menu. MWE code is attached.
>
> Python3 tells me there's invalid syntax on line 42:
> self.['menu'] = menubar # attach it to the top level window
> ^
> yet that's the syntax he prints on page 84 (and has in the book's code
> supplement).
>
> Why am I getting an invalid syntax error here?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
Because it is the wrong syntax.
It could be either:
self.menu = menubar
or
self['menu'] = menubar
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Richard Damon
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